I have transaction data and I would like to extract the merchant from the transaction description. I am new to this but I just came across Named Entity Recognition and SpaCy. I have hundreds of thousands of different merchants. Some questions that I have: How much labelling do I need to do given the number of merchants I need to extract? How many different instances of the same merchant I need to label to get decent results?

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